A new Pew study of blogging, just out today and reviewed by the Associated Press here. The AP reporter emphasizes that the study shows that there are few folks blogging, but a direct look at the study indicates that it also shows that people are findging many ways to put content on the web–and that this is a major trend.
Even the AP’s limited summary highlights some intriguing findings. Most interesting is that it reports that somewhere between two and seven percent of Internet users have blogs. As described in the AP story, the discrepancy between two and seven is that when the main polling was conducted, in late 2003, it found the two percent figure. When follow-up polling was conducted in 2004, it found seven percent. Perhaps blogging is rising fast?
Second fascinating finding is that seven percent of people sampled reported that they had web-cams that let others watch them over the web. Hmmm. More have webcams than blogs? Hmmm. If true, that is an interesting finding, indeed. But it makes me wonder a bit about the Pew study..
